User blog comment:Biggren/The Silvir Conquest/@comment-4677325-20140616035721/@comment-3135907-20140723204459

 Enter throwing dagger physics! 
 * Effective stopping power is at least 1300 ft/s. A throwing dagger can't achieve this velocity, and so cannot achieve stopping power unless thrown with a strength not credible to living beings, since the thrown dagger makes a meager 35 ft/s to 45 ft/s. Also, throwing knives spin end-over-end, allowing for wind resistance that causes them to lose velocity quickly.
 * "A person who uses a knife in hand-to-hand combat benefits from the ability to put their body weight behind each thrust. A thrown knife, on the other hand, has only its own weight to work with. When you see a thrown knife in a movie that has buried itself up to its hilt in the bad guy’s chest, what you are seeing a cliché with no basis in reality(emphasis added)." - "The Throwing Knives Myth"
 * Above all this, the accuracy of a throwing dagger in a fight sequence is highly questionable, even at close range.
 * Above all this, the accuracy of a throwing dagger in a fight sequence is highly questionable, even at close range.
 * Above all this, the accuracy of a throwing dagger in a fight sequence is highly questionable, even at close range.